Prepare Your Ebay Store for the Holidays
Around the holiday season, retailers everywhere prepare themselves for the influx of customers and the higher sales that they don’t enjoy for the rest of the year. Just like big retailers, you, too, should prepare your eBay store for the holidays. Many consumers take the internet in droves in search of a good deal, or to find that must-have item of the season that no one else seems to have in stock. With the right items in your inventory, you can make a huge profit on eBay during the Christmas shopping rush.
Stock up on the projected holiday favorites a couple of months in advanced. By the end of October, you should have a good inventory of the popular children’s toys, gadgets, jewelry, and other articles for the holiday shopping season. Pick up other, smaller items as the weeks progress, but don’t start listing these items until the middle to the end of November. This is when you will be able to fetch the highest price on your auctions, when everyone is rushing to get their Christmas shopping finished early.
If you don’t regularly use eBay’s “Buy It Now” option, this is a great time to start. Set a “Buy It Now” price a little higher than what you would normally accept for each item. This gives buyers a quick and easy way to purchase the item, and helps you sell your items faster. Adding a “Best Offer” option to your auctions may help, as well. If you are selling a particularly expensive item, “Best Offer” can help you and your bidders find a price somewhere in the middle that you are both happy with.
Keep your shipping deadlines listed clearly at the top of every auction. Let your buyers know when the absolute last day for purchase is if they want to receive their items in time for the holidays. Offer expedited shipped, if you can keep up with packaging and shipping items overnight for your buyers. This can be the difference between whether or not you make a lot high, of last-minute sales!
Make sure that you keep your eBay business at the top of your priorities around this time. It’s very easy for us to get caught up in the activities of the holidays, like baking and attending parties, but your business needs to come first. Buyers are depending on you to ship their items out quickly and on time, and there is little room for error or lateness on your part. Focus on getting your business responsibilities out of the way first every day, before you start worrying about the holiday hoopla.
The holiday season can be a great time to bring in huge profits that you normally don’t see during the rest of the year. With a lot of hard work and effort, you can reap great rewards. Remember to keep your eBay business at the top of your priorities, so that both you and your customers don’t have to deal with unnecessary stress. When all of your responsibilities are wrapped up, you can enjoy the festivities knowing that your eBay business had an incredibly successful season!
Vickie Sayce
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Is This A Scam Or Is It Real?!?
Hey guys! I have been ebaying for about a year now, only selling some stuff in my house, and have built up 36 positive feedbacks. While I know that is very little, a "company" says they are interested in me working for them, and that they got my email through ebay. At first, I thought it was a scam, but after reading more about it, I saw that I do not need to put in any real information of mine. Here is the actual email.
Good morning,
We’ve found your e-mail at http://www.ebay.com web site and we have business proposal
for you. As I see
you have high positive feedback rating and have good experience in online
business, so I think we can
do business together.
Our company "Sigmacomputers",resell computers,digital cameras,elecronics and
other goods in Russian Federation,
You can check our web site to familiraze with our company – http://www.sigmacomputers.ru
We offer for our customers to buy goods directly from US stores it more
cheaper then buy in Russian Local dealers.
Also we prepare goods from USA after we receive them in our warehouse. Custom
clearance and localithation( install
Software symbols on keyboard), so our customers recieve ready
for use products and price cheaper
then buy from local dealers.
Quantity of orders from USA stores grows every day. So we need more partners in
USA for order processing.
You are selling goods on ebay and you have good experience with shipping
procedure
Requirements:
– Home Computer with e-mail account and ability to check your e-mail
box at least twice a day;
– Adults only accepted (we cannot hire underage people);
– Contact phone;
– Ability to handle packages weight up to 20 pounds(get them to the post
office).
Duty:
– Receive packages
– Check content for damages and missing parts (to avoid international returns)
– Ship packages
Salary:
30$ for each shipped package;
10$ for cheking content of package;
10$ for each repacking procedure;
This work will take about 1-2 h day, you not need invest any your money, all
postage fees pays our company.
If you interested in this partnership please email me :
Best wishes
So I answered them with the reply of, "I would like you to go into more depth with what I would be doing." I got this email in return.
Thank you for you reply,
BENEFITS:
– Part-time job
– About 20 real working hours a week
– 5 working days (Monday-Friday)
– Saturday and Sunday, the US State holidays – days off
DUTIES:
– To accept packages and the correspondence from delivery services
– To repack the goods if necessary
– To check package content
– To send packages and correspondence to clients in terms specified by the Company
Job description:
Correspondence manager regional agent
1. Receiving the correspondence from our partners (US sellers) to you residential address or alternative address (office and etc) ;
Correspondence will be delivered from 9:30 am – 17:00 pm Via UPS FEDEX or DHL you have to sign for packages.
2. Check package content for missing parts. Report to manager if something is wrong.(To Avoid international returns)
3. If you received 2 or more boxes you have to repack boxoes into 1 package and reposrt to our manager package weight.
4. Our manager will calculate shipping cost and sent via email prepaid shipping label
5. You have to print shipping label and go to USPS post office (you can check office location on http://USPS.COM) and ship package.
6. Report to your personal manager that package(s) are shipped and email tracking number(s).
We pays for you $30 for each shipped out box, 10$ for content check, 10$ for each shipped letter and 10$ for packages repacking
At example you received 2 boxes -> repacked to 1 package -> shipped You earning will be 40+40+10 = 90$
We pay you salary each 2 weeks(western union or bank transfer)
If you are interested and want start working with our company please fill form below and email it to me:
Full name:
Agewe cannot hire underage people)
Addressfor package delivery po box not accepted)
Alternative address: (if you have alternative address)
City:
State:
Zip code:
Country: United States
Contact telephone number:
Contact Email:
Yahoo or MSN messenger ID:
Do you have scanner ? –
What type of transfers you able accept for payouts/shipping :
western union (y/n) –
bank transfer (y/n) –
paypal (y/n) –
Hope to hear you soon.
Thanks guys and let me know if this is a scam or not!
Thanks guys. My problem now is that I responded to the email. My dad told me that they now have my IP adress and can steal my computer information. Is this true?
SCAM!
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eBay will not give out your email address.
Total scam. It has all of the "scam features" like Russia, bad English, having you ship stuff, etc.
Stay away from that crap.
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It’s a scam. Don’t bother waste your time.
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im guessing its a scam…?
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sounds fishy to me.
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SCAM! It’s from another country not regulated by US Laws. Give them no information.
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dont know why but it sounds like a scam to good to be true
sounds like they dont trust there staff to do the job why would they want a middle man/woman
this would eat in to there profit cant understand
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SCAM
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